Thursday, September 11, 2014

Post Number Two: Electric Over Used Sequel Title.

Never knew the difference between bits and bytes before. I always thought advertisers were mispronouncing bytes because they're old. Bits are the units of data transmitted on Internet transactions, while Bytes are the stored data on drives. One Byte is the same as eight bits, so it takes eight times longer than I expected for a file to transfer. Bytes are supposed to use a capital b while bits use lowercase, e.g. MB vs. Mb. While looking for one of these commercials, I found a video going more in depth on the Bit vs. Byte issue:

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